In order to test the board we used the following setup:

• CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ AM2
• Memory: Crucial Ballistix 2x1GB PC2-8000
• Case: Thermaltake Soprano
• PSU: OCZ GameXStream GXS600 SLI-Ready
• VGA: MSI 7600GT Silent (stock memory/core timings)
• Monitor: Viewsonic 19" LCD VP930b (1280x1024 resolution)
• Windows XP SP2 with all latest updates installed
• Nvidia Forceware v92.91 (beta)
• HDD: WD 800JB

For comparison, we post results from another Foxconn AM2 based motherboard, the Foxconn C51XEM2AA.

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The first test results concern memory performance. As we can see, there is quite a difference, especially in the copy/read tests, while in memory write, the motherboards are very close:

In the FPU/CPU tests, the performance between is very similar:

Lastly, the Sisoft Sandra 2007 SP1 scores, show that while there is very little between the boards, the C51XEM2AA motherboard is slightly faster than the K8M890M2MA: